If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Michael Jordan’s impact on basketball goes well beyond his achievements on the court itself, and a new book charts the outsized role Air Jordan had on basketball and …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. After leading the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA Finals in 2024, Slovenian shooting guard Luka Dončić quickly became one of the best and brightest players in the association. …
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I got out of the Uber in industrial Brooklyn, trying to get my bearings on this sweatbox morning. There was no address on the brewery to my right or the scrapyard across the street. I tried the front door of a brick-block building, but found it firmly locked. Five minutes …
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The vilification of Isiah Thomas began in his prime playing years. As the star and floor leader of the Detroit Pistons, the so-called Bad Boys — Isiah named the team after a line of dialogue from Al Pacino’sScarface— Thomas became associated with all the sins of that two-time NBA champion …
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After his brief stints in the Basketball Africa League and Canadian Elite Basketball League, J.Cole is making the leap to the NBA — well, kinda. The rapper is set to become a minority owner in the Charlotte Hornets after NBA legend Michael Jordan announced that he was selling the franchise …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. “I’m willing to bet my career on one guy,” Matt Damon says as Nike marketing exec John “Sonny” Vaccaro in the trailer for the Ben Affleck-directed Air — …
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There is much to recommend in Air, director Ben Affleck’s new movie about Nike going out on a limb to sign Michael Jordan to a sneaker contract. The acting is, across the board, top-notch. Viola Davis, the finest working actor in America, turns in another heater as Jordan’s shrewd, iron-fisted …
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A wise man once asked: “Is it the shoes?” The question has plagued generations of sneaker fanatics, amateur ballers, and would-be Hall-of-Famers, all of whom would give their right rotator cuff to be Just. Like. Mike. Thankfully, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Air has provided an answer. It pops out …
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“Viola, I love you. Your outfit is eating.” That was but one of many laudatory comments the cast and crew of Air received following its premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas, and it prompted the film’s director and co-star, Ben Affleck, to crack, “I never …
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